Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Engineer

Overview

Design, implement and support containerized application platforms on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for RTX's enterprise cloud environment. This is a senior individual contributor role and not a team lead position.

What you'll do

• Deploy, configure and maintain production and non-production AKS clusters following enterprise standards.
• Manage cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, scaling, node management and workload integrations.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized workloads using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Develop and maintain Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Implement and enforce AKS security controls including RBAC, Azure AD integration, image scanning, secrets management and network security measures.
• Monitor workloads using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana and other observability tools; proactively address performance and reliability issues.
• Partner with application teams and architects to design and support scalable microservices and containerized solutions.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, architecture patterns and operational standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and support incident response for AKS and related cloud platform services.
• Support governance, compliance and audit requirements for Kubernetes environments.

What you'll need

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms.
• 3+ years hands-on Azure experience with 2+ years supporting or managing production Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred).
• Understanding of container architecture, Docker and orchestration fundamentals, with knowledge of Azure networking, security, managed identities and resource architecture.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform, Bicep) and GitOps approaches (Flux, ArgoCD).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated deep, hands-on daily experience administering and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows Server environments, including system configuration, monitoring, patching and performance optimization.
• Must have diagnostic skills across distributed systems, compute, networking, storage and application layers.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company's immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500) or Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD).
• Experience with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd) or ingress controllers.
• Exposure to cost optimization strategies for Kubernetes.
• Understanding of microservices architecture patterns and distributed system design.

Details

• Remote role; works primarily offsite (from home). Candidates may be asked to attend select interview steps in person at an RTX office.
• U.S.-based role; no immigration sponsorship offered and no export authorization will be sought.
• Security clearance: none required.
• Salary range: 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD.
• Employment type: full-time is not stated in the source.